Christopher v. Grueby’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.2d 8 · 1930
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1973 · most notably Earle & Stoddart, Inc. v. Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd. (1932), Silver Line v. United States (1937)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on The Osceola · Pacific Co v. Peterson · The Southwark · Carlisle Packing Co. v. Sandanger · The Iroquois
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The duty of ship owners to their seamen to see that their ship is seaworthy and her equipment in safe condition for use when she starts on a voyage is a personal one, responsibility for which they cannot escape by delegating its performance to another. In this respect it is like the common-law duty of a master to provide his servant a suitable place in which to work. And a seaman injured through failure to perform this duty is entitled to compensation.’ Christopher v. Grueby, 1 Cir., 40 F.2d 8, 12 . “This duty, as to injuries, for which the general maritime law provides recovery, is absolute. Its breach without regard to negligence makes the owner liable for such losses.” (Citing cases.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.